Roboplow
 

Who's up for building one of these? I was thinking of adding tracks and a salt shaker on the back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tPg1ZMiC9pA

Re: Roboplow
 

Wishing we had the resources to make one of these...
I'd thought a while ago of making an autonomous snowblower for demos. Up here in the U.P, all we have to work with is snow :p

Re: Roboplow
 

I'd build one myself, but it looks extremely costly, between $2,000 and $3,000 is my guess

Re: Roboplow
 

Here are a couple of articles about a smaller version created by a group of Mechanical Engineering students here at Purdue. David Hoff, one of the members, is an alumni of Purdue FIRST, a group of Purdue students who help mentor FIRST teams in the area (FRC teams 461, 1646, and 1747 and numerous FLL teams throughout the local area).
http://www.theindychannel.com/weathe...65/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/...ears.snow.wrtv

Re: Roboplow
 

I find the shooting of the snow to be less than ideal. I think the plow would be a lot faster too.

Re: Roboplow
 

I think that a plow would be a bit safer to inherently.

You have to take a bit more into consideration when using a snow blower.

Re: Roboplow
 

Our team, team 2861 in minnesota are actually going to start to build something like this starting next wed. after we ship our robot.

Re: Roboplow
 

Awesome! make sure you post lots of pics and specs!